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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

The 239 day of the year--- 127 days left in this year

• Today is Hold A Bubblegum Bubble Blowing Tournament Day with contests for all age-groups and a double-elimination championship Blow-Off.
• Today is La Tomatina, the world's largest tomato fight takes place at noon in Spain, near Valencia. Some 35,000 will hurl 120 tons of tomatoes at each other for two hours.
• Today is National Sing-Out Day, a day to break out in song like they do in the musicals.
• Today is Mother Teresa Day, marking her birth on August 27, 1910. The Catholic nun founded the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, which cared for the destitute in Calcutta. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and died in Calcutta in 1997.

ON THIS DATE...

1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs published his first magazine story about an abandoned English boy raised by African apes. Tarzan, "King of the Jungle," became one of the 20th centuries' best-known fictional characters.

1996: Four armed and masked bandits intent on robbing a Checkers restaurant in Pembroke Pines, Florida, were arrested when it turned out the shrub near the drive-in window was carrying a shotgun. Detective Earl Feugill had been staked-out as a shaggy green bush for 90 minutes waiting for the robbers who had been targeting fast food restaurants.

1997: Animal humane officer Bob Warren of Kenosha, Wisconsin, rescued his seventh skunk of the summer with its head stuck in a Yoplait yogurt container. Warren said it's not that difficult as long as you keep the skunk's tail down.

2001: Sophie Frith won the Southern Daily Echo baby beauty contest in London. Ironically, her identical twin sister Olivia didn't even make the second round. The twins were dressed alike and their photos were indistinguishable, yet Sophie received hundreds more votes than Olivia.

Bible Fun Fact

Paul wrote a distinguishing note at the end of Galatians in "large letters" (Gal 6:11)